Speculative application: Consultant (BoF Insights)

Overview

The Business of Fashion (BoF) is looking to hire experienced consultants full-time or part-time and on a rolling basis to join BoF Insights, The Business of Fashion’s data and advisory team. BoF Insights partners with leading fashion, luxury and beauty clients to help them sustainably grow their brands and businesses for the long-term.

If you’re an accomplished business and/or creative strategist with a background at a leading agency or consulting firm, we’d love to hear from you. We’re always looking for new talent to support BoF Insights’ growth.

We are open to applications in both London or New York. 

Who Are We?

The Business of Fashion is recognised around the world for its authoritative, analytical point of view on the global fashion and beauty industries. Our mission: to open, inform and connect the global fashion and beauty industries.

Serving members in more than 125 countries, The Business of Fashion combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world.

Over time, our pioneering approach has made BoF the fashion industry’s leading source of business intelligence, and one of its most respected and influential voices, simply because you won’t find BoF’s original reporting, analysis and advice anywhere else. The Business of Beauty brings the same kind of agenda-setting coverage to the beauty and wellness space. Today, our talented team of correspondents, editors, analysts, engineers, designers, marketers and more numbers more than 100 people in London, New York, Paris and Milan.

Commitment to Diversity

BoF is committed to building a diverse workforce and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. All applicants and employees receive equal treatment regardless of race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity.

Commitment to Inclusivity

BoF is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and reach their full potential within their roles using a growth mindset. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture for our employees globally.

Commitment to Accessibility

BoF is committed to providing an accessible environment for all applicants throughout any stage of the recruitment process, by removing any barriers to ensure we offer a process that gives all of our applicants an opportunity to shine.

We will work with you to understand what adjustments you may need in the recruitment process to ensure you are able to perform at your best and we want to create a safe space to support this. Should you require any particular adjustment to be made, please let the Talent Specialist who is managing your application know when you are contacted for an interview, so we can consider how best we can support you with this. 

Who You Are

• You are a data-driven business and/or creative strategist who has a background at a leading agency or consulting firm.
• You are intensely curious about consumer, macroeconomic, technological, and other trends shaping BoF’s key industries and have an innate sense of how to conduct compelling analysis about them.
• You are relentlessly focused on distilling second- and third-order insights.
• You excel at communicating complex concepts through charts, infographics and other formats combined with sharp written narratives. In digging into the “why”, “how” and “so what”, you go the extra mile to find the answers.
• You have an abundance of experience in scoping and executing different types of analysis, e.g., category landscapes and company profiles based on interviews and research, consumer surveying, market sizing based on proprietary modelling, and/or financial analysis based on public disclosures.
• You exude the knowledge, poise and presence to conduct interviews with and make presentations to senior audiences.
• You are a creative but analytical thinker. You understand convention, but you do not feel bound by it.

What We Need You To Do 

As part of the BoF Insights team you will prospect, plan and execute advisory projects, e.g.,

• Prospecting: Representing the BoF Insights team in prospective client conversations initiated by the business development team.
• Planning: Determining the optimal quantitative and qualitative analysis to conduct to answer clients’ most pressing strategic questions.
• Analysing: Conducting research, surveys and interviews and to analyse both quantitative and qualitative data with a strong attention to detail.
• Synthesising: Distilling findings as part of presentation documents to be sent to clients.
• Presenting: Presenting findings to the client’s most senior executives online and in-person.

You’ll Know You’re Successful When…

• You effectively collaborate with the business development team to secure advisory projects.
• You are able to deliver projects efficiently and to the highest standard.
• You are a go-to resource for a range of external clients, including private equity firms, brands, retailers, marketplaces, and startups.
• You can represent BoF Insights at both in-person and online engagements and are viewed as a respected and trusted BoF “ambassador” among industry professionals seeking out our finger-on-the-pulse knowledge.